Pay TV – Page 16 – Display Daily

Tele Columbus Announces advanceTV

by Isaac Oburu

Tele Columbus, Germany’s third-largest cable operator, will launch its new advanceTV product on 16 January 2017. It offers its customers a leapfrog entertainment platform providing linear and video-on-demand content anytime on the TV set …

Tags:Germany| Pay TV

HD+ Adds Multiscreen & Eurosport – Raises Prices

by Bob Raikes

The HD+ platform in Germany will increase the price for its service from €60 to €70 per year or €5.75, up from €5.00. There are now 23 private HD channels including Eurosport 1 HD …

Tags:Germany| HD+ (Germany)| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 23 - Issue 47

AT&T Has DirectTV Now

by Bob Raikes

AT&T, as expected, launched the DirectTV Now streaming TV platform in the US, with packages at $35, $50, $60 (this level is temporarily at $35, but those that sign at that level will stay …

Major U.S. Pay TV Operators Lose 255,000 Subscribers in 3Q 2016

by Milos Pavlovic

Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG) found that the eleven largest pay-TV providers in the US — representing about 95% of the market — lost about 255,000 net video subscribers in 3Q 2016, compared to …

Tags:Pay TV| USA

Telcos to take >50% of WE and Latam Pay TV

by Bob Raikes

Analyst, Ovum, has put out a couple of reports recently. In one, quoted by Digital TV Europe, the conclusion is that telcos will control half of all pay TV in Western Europe and Latin …

Pay-TV Grows in Portugal

by Bob Raikes

A report from APIT in Portugal, detailed on Advanced Television.com said that pay TV is gaining in popularity and reaching 42% in 2015. The majority of viewers (56%) still rely on FTA DTT content. …

Spain Sees High Pay TV Growth

by Yvette Raikes

Spanish pay-TV saw an 18.5% YoY increase in sales in 2015 with revenue reaching over €2 billion, according to a report from Spain’s telecom authority, with the number of subscribers rising to 5.6 million. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Spain| Vol 23 - Issue 41

ADB extends capability of vuTyme hotel iTV platform with vuCaster solution for streaming from personal devices

by Isaac Oburu

ADB, a leading provider of solutions and services for media convergence, has announced that it is extending the capability of its vuTyme next-generation managed services hotel iTV solution to enable guests to stream content …

Tags:Netflix| Pay TV| VOD

Pay-TV is in 82% of US TV Homes

by Yvette Raikes

According to research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG), currently 82% of US households are subscribing to a pay-TV service, back to 2005 levels and down from 87% in 2011. 2.6% of households have subscribed …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Dish Makes Argument for Validity of Pay TV at CEDIA

by Chris Chinnock

In a presentation at CEDIA, a Dish CEO Vivek Khempka gave an overview of the landscape for OTT streaming services and pay TV services. His conclusion: Pay TV still offers good value compared to …

Tags:Cedia 2016| Dish Network| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 23 - Issue 37

IPTV Shores Up Nordics Pay-TV market

by Yvette Raikes

Generally over Western Europe there has been a rise in pay-TV subscriptions and this is forecast to continue. But IPTV in particular has seen a doubling of its subscriber base and now outnumbers satellite …

Tags:IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Slimmed-down TV Packages Have Mixed Results

by Yvette Raikes

Almost 70% of 18-14 year olds in the USA, who currently don’t subscribe to pay-TV, say that they would only consider “more affordable channel lineups that fit my viewing tastes”, according to Altman Vilandrie’s …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 23 - Issue 38